David Wallace Response

I believe that David Wallace’s actions spoke as loud as his words.  He went against the flow of a normal commencement speech that most people give out.  He explained that the human race is very self-centered and that we as a whole care more about ourselves than anyone else, thus missing out on the true meaning of life.  Wallace gave many examples on how are self-centeredness and hard wired thoughts, tend to make people shut out any other ideas or possibility’s on life.   Myself included have many times been in a rush thinking, “me, me, me” and forget about the fact that there are other people around that most likely have bigger problems than I do.   He explains how these graduates don’t fully understand the true meaning of the regular “day in and day out” work life and that in fact it does become monotonous.  This is in fact true for myself because, when I’m not in school, I work all the time, and I forget how boring the working life is.  Go to bed early, wake up early, work all day, come home and try to relax, not only to do it all over again the next day.  We are all hard wired like this; we take for granted the most obvious day to day things in life, when in reality we should notice them the most.  I think this was a great speak, one I have read before, and actually quoted from without realizing it.  It made me try to change the way I think from the self-centered mindset to one that is thoughtful and trying to be understanding of other things that might be taking place.